English hotel Indigo has decided to replace its Bibles with Kindles and has even received kind words of support from Gideons International, the deliverers of Bibles worldwide.

So, the traditional version of Bible will get the boot and the holy text will be loaded onto Kindle Touch devices strapped with Wi-Fi. Additionally, guests will be treated to up to $8 worth of religious texts for free, but only in the first two weeks of the program.

Guests will be able to purchase other books in Amazon's store, not necessarily from the fantasy genre. The additional titles will be synced to their account and the book will only be readable during their stay.

The hotel expects the Kindles to be handled just like the rest of its stuff, such as towels and soaps. So, if its Kindle goes missing, it will be charged to the room.

Seeing as how printing and distributing a Bible costs $5 and a 6-inch Kindle Touch costs $139, it will not come cheap. In fact, purchasing a Kindle Touch for each of the 148 rooms adds up to $20,572. Some would argue that the same cash could theoretically feed many hungry children in third world countries, but who are we to complain.

Gideons spokesperson Ken Stephens said: "Anything to put the Bible in people's hands is a good thing". However, he added that the paper version remains the best for what Gideons do.

A new patent troll has appeared on the scene claiming that anyone who runs a wireless Internet has to pay it loads of money. US Innovatio IP Ventures is suing every outfit offers wireless Internet to customers, filing six infringement lawsuits this month against individual branches of some of the country’s largest hotel chains.

So far the outfit has been making claims against coffee shops and department stores. It should not be long before it starts demanding money, with legal menaces, against American home connections.

Matthew McAndrews, a partner at Chicago-based law firm Niro, Haller & Niro, and the lead litigator for Innovatio in its infringement lawsuits said that he is not thinking of doing that “at this stage.” Since March, he has filed 13 infringement suits.

At the moment the outfit demands a one-time lump sum licensing payment between $2,300 and $5,000 from each of the several hundred defendants targeted in its lawsuits, McAndrews said. Some of the defendants have already written cheques to make the case go away.

Most of the patents Innovatio is asserting in its lawsuits were invented in the 1990s and early 2000s, by a bloke called Robert Meier and the late Ronald Mahany. They worked for outfits acquired by Broadcom. The patents changed owners several times but ended up in Innovatio’s hands on February 28, about one week before Innovatio began asserting them in litigation.

However it might not go all Innovatio’s way. Its first batch of law suits triggered retaliation from wireless communications giants Motorola and Cisco. In May, Motorola and Cisco moaned to a court about the patents and asked it to rule that their products don’t infringe, and declare Innovatio’s patents invalid.

Google has been sued because of the autocomplete suggestions for an Irish hotel.

The Ballymascanlon House Hotel, Golf and Leisure Club says several potential guests, including brides planning their weddings, see the word “receivership” pop up during Google searches for the hotel’s name. As a result, claims the hotel, they have been cancelling their bookings, leaving the hotel out of pocket.

In Blighty, receivership is used by creditors in insolvency legislation in the UK; in some cases, the administration of the debtor’s business might even be turned over to the receiver. Google’s autocomplete suggestions have gotten the company into legal hot water in the past for exactly this reason. Lately it has been gently censoring the results although it is also a bit tricky.